9:23 So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.
9:24 For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast pur (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them.
9:25 But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king